‘Global Environment poses challenges’
New Delhi: Noting that power relationships are constantly changing, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said unless a country understands and addresses itself to changes taking place around it, its own security would be seriously endangered. Addressing members of the 53rd batch of National Defence College (NDC), the President said global environment poses numerous challenges to world leaders and policy-makers because of its dynamic nature.
‘Sharif could have been aware of Pak hostility’
New Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh believes that Nawaz Sharif could have been aware of Pakistan army’s aggression in Kargil in 1999 despite the insistence by the then Pakistan Prime Minister that he did not know about it. “I do not think a Prime Minister can remain unaware,” Singh told PTI. He was responding when asked whether he believes Sharif’s contention that he had no knowledge about the Pakistan army’s aggression that led to a three-month conflict.
CBI judicial request to italy in chopper scam
New Delhi: With a view to finalising the charge sheet in VVIP helicopter purchase scam, CBI will send a judicial request to Italy seeking statements of the accused who have been facing trial in that country. CBI sources said a detailed questionnaire on various aspects of financial transactions, meetings of alleged middlemen and their interests in Indian and Tunisian companies, among others, would be part of the judicial request.
JNU Sociology prof is new ISS president
New Delhi: Sociology Professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Anand Kumar has been unanimously elected as the President of Indian Sociological Society (ISS), a prestigious association of sociologists from across the country. “I am humbled and honoured to have been given this huge task. During my career in academics, I have been associated with ISS and consider it as a vibrant platform which brings together sociologists of all hues from across the country and nurtures the spirit of dialogues and scholarship,” said Kumar, who heads the department at Centre for Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU.
IIS officials to be trained at Oz’s varsity
New Delhi: Indian Information Service (IIS) officials will be trained at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in using modern technology and social media for providing information about Government policies. The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) and Brisbane-based QUT on Monday signed an agreement to facilitate advance training IIS officers at QUT, a statement by Information and Broadcasting Ministry said.